Summit Notebook

The decline in U.S. manufacturing is nowhere more evident than in parts of Ohio. As factories close, 250,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past four years — and those jobs will be on voters’ minds March 4th when they go to the polls.

Companies such as Caterpillar and Deere are starting to take a look at the efficiency of their manufacturing processes, as growth begins to level off, Kennametal President & CEO Carlos Cardoso told the Reuters Manufacturing Summit.